Unit 7: World War II

December 7, 1941, Japanese attack that brought the U.S. into WWII.

• Battle of Midway

• D-Day

• Bataan Death March

• Pearl Harbor

Turning point naval battle in the Pacific that stopped Japanese expansion.

• Battle of Midway

• Island Hopping

• D-Day

• Battle of Midway

Allied invasion of German-occupied France on June 6, 1944.

• D-Day (Normandy)

• Liberation of Camps

• Pearl Harbor

• Volunteerism

Nazi genocide of Jews and other minority groups.

• Fascism

• Holocaust

• Appeasement

• Internment

Native Americans who used their language as an unbreakable code during WWII.

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Office of War Information

African American pilots who served as the first Black combat unit in WWII.

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Flying Tigers

• Volunteerism

• Tuskegee Airmen

U.S. strategy of capturing key Pacific islands to move closer to Japan.

• Island Hopping

• Mobilization

• Rationing

• Island Hopping

Government action forcing Japanese Americans into camps during WWII.

• Volunteerism

• Concentration

• Appeasement

• Internment

Presidential order that authorized Japanese internment.

• Executive Order 9981

• Executive Order 9066

• Manhattan Project Order

• Office of War Information

Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment during WWII.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Schenck v. United States

• Korematsu v. United States